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September 24, 2018
Dartmouth, N.S., worker terminated
for failure to submit medical note
Illness confirmation
required by employer
AFTER multiple attendance issues continued
for years, a worker at a Nova Scotia factory was
dismissed for not giving his employer a doctor's
note justifying his latest absence.
Stanley Jack worked for 10 years at Maritime
Paper Products in Dartmouth, N.S., when on Fri-
day, Jan. 5, 2018, he called in sick. The following
Monday, Jack reported back at the plant.
When his supervisor asked for a note explain-
ing the absence on Jan. 5, Jack said he didn't have a
doctor's note, so he was sent home. The next day,
he was back at work with a doctor's note.
However, contrary to company policy, the note
was prepared on Jan. 8, not Jan. 5, which is when
Jack should have seen the physician.
ARBITRATION
AWARDS
COLLECTIVE
AGREEMENTS
see Arbitration > pg 8
see Collective agreements > pg. 3
pg. 2
Marriott contract ratified
Wages will rise by more than 10 per
cent in new three-year deal signed
by workers at downtown
Toronto hotel
Drumheller and District Seniors Foundation (Sunshine Lodge) — Alberta
pg. 3 Iqaluit Housing Authority — Nunavut pg. 4 AT Films — Alberta
pg. 5 Canadian Electrocoating Limited — Ontario pg. 6 Cogeco Media
Acquisitions — Quebec pg. 7
COLLECTIVE
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READERS'
LABOUR RELATIONS
TRAINING
CHOICE
irc.queensu.ca
Mastering Fac t-Finding & Investigation, Nov. 6-9, 2018: Vic toria
Building Internal Capacity To Effectively Deal with Workplace Complaints
Strategies for Workplace Conflic ts, Oc t. 30-Nov. 1, 2018: Toronto
Practical & Effective Conflict Resolution Skills for Managing Ever yday Workplace Disputes
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING
Chemco
Nisku, Alta.
(21 foremen, technicians, apprentices) and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Local 424
Renewal agreement: Effect-
ive June 17, 2018, to June 17,
2020. Ratified on June 17, 2018.
Signed on June 17, 2018.
Wage adjustments:
Effective 2019: $0.50 per hour
each year to journeyman base
wage (as Alberta CPI Index is
Toronto city worker dismissed
after jail time, no contact with boss
A HEAVY-EQUIPMENT op-
erator for the waste division of the
City of Toronto was dismissed af-
ter he spent 20 days in jail without
updating the employer.
David Hatch had worked for
the city since Aug. 28, 2017, when
on July 29, 2017, he told his su-
pervisor "something had come
up and he didn't know if he could
make it to work on Monday."
He promised to contact an-
other supervisor on Monday and
provide the employer with further
details to explain his no-show.
Hatch turned himself in to the
see No written > pg. 8
